Leadwerks is a semi open-source C/C++, C# and BlitzMax, as well as community-supported extensions for Delphi, Engine. The engine is offered as both a dynamic linked library (DLL) and BlitzMax module.

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About Leadwerks Engine with 0 comments by Leadwerks on May 7th, 2013

An update for Leadwerks 3 has been released, bringing new graphical enhancements to mobile games.  Building on the efficient art pipeline and user-friendly tools of Leadwerks 3, the engine now supports projected shadows for characters and other dynamic objects.  This technique works by casting a shadow onto the surrounding world geometry, to provide real-time shadows that run fast on all platforms.

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To enable dynamic shadows on a single object, just select it in the editor and choose the new "Dynamic" option in the "Cast Shadows" property.  You can also do this in code by calling Entity::SetShadowMode(Light::Dynamic).

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Leadwerks 3 has also gotten a visual upgrade with the addition of post-processing effects.  In Leadwerks 2, all post-processing effects like volumetric light scattering, screen-space ambient occlusion, depth-of-field, and bloom were hard-coded.  That is, they were written into the core engine and it was difficult to customize the renderer.  Leadwerks 3 has added a new command, Camera::AddPostEffect(), which allows the user to attach a shader right to a camera, to automatically render post-processing effects.

Leadwerks is a fast and flexible development platform for building mobile games with native code.  You can download a 30-day trial version on the website here

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rstralberg
rstralberg Dec 1 2012, 7:55am says:

Great Indie Game Engine. Stunningly good graphics and if you know LUA and C++ its just perfect.

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LizardGamer
LizardGamer Sep 8 2010, 7:37pm says:

I want to know what is Semi-OpenSource? I know what open source is, but not this one.

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madmax2012
madmax2012 Jun 26 2010, 6:31am says:

amazing gfx :)

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Zocker4ever
Zocker4ever Apr 9 2010, 6:48pm says:

Very interesting...
Would it be possible to make a rts game with this engine?

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roadking
roadking Apr 7 2010, 9:26am says:

nice!

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Azkanan
Azkanan Mar 3 2010, 8:08am says:

I wish I could remove those annoying tags <!--SCREENSHOTS--> and such, but they're invisible/not shown in the editting mode =/

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ItsThatMatt
ItsThatMatt Feb 22 2010, 1:15am says:

Wow! This looks.. Amazing.. !

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